Eleanor Erna Olek

Eleanor Erna Olek, 90, entered into eternal rest surrounded by her family members on July 6, 2013.

Born in Holyoke, Mass., at six weeks old, she moved, living her early years in Passaic, N.J. She lived in Wayne, N.J., for 47 years before moving in 2000 to Albrightsville, where she was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church.

She retired after working 30 years as a waitress for Meyer Brothers and Stern's in New Jersey. During her lifetime, she was a Luther League member, Sunday school teacher and earned her 5,000-hour volunteer pin from Chilton Memorial Hospital in New Jersey. Her interests included daily prayer book and Bible reading, latch hooking, baking, doll collecting and raising monarch butterflies. She made a latch-hook rug of our Lord, which hangs in her church.

She was the beloved mother of sons John and Robert of Albrightsville; and her daughter, Linda and her husband, Dennis, of Pequannock, N.J. She was the beloved grandmother of Liana and her husband, George, and Laurie and Kelly. She was the loving aunt, great-aunt and great-great-aunt to many nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her husband, John; her son, Douglas; and her two sisters, Ruth and Pearl.

Visitation will be at noon Friday, July 12, at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Old Stage Road, Albrightsville. A church service to celebrate her life will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, followed by interment in the church cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in her name may be made to the Endowment Fund of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, P.O. Box 200, Albrightsville, PA 18210.